CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7268, 5 March 1885, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

AUCKLAND PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. TO THE KDIIOB.

Bijt ( —This association, according to your public report of its doings oa Friday, was to deliberate upon the replies received from their selected representative men of the country. You eay : " AlJout twenty replies were received, and many of them containing valuable suggestions, and all favourable to the action of the committee in adopting such a course, in endeavouring to secure the cooperation of the country." That la, only twenty replies from the collated representative talent of the Auckland country provincial district. Such a barren response must be considered something more than a failure, a blunder from its conception. I have heard no other opinion expressed by the farmers I am weekly in the habit of meeting; but the greatest surprise that it could possibly be expected that a selection of representative men by Messrs. W. F. Buckland, F. Lawry, and the Hesretary could be in any sense satisfactory. The twenty persons replying must feel highly flattered by being selected aa the representative men of their districts, hence their prostration to the Selection Committee and utter disregard to the opinions of the •opposed represented. If the association was really in earnest in desiring the ocoperation and support of the farming community they should have tent a circular intimating its desire to the Chairmen of the various Highway Boards, asking them to call meetings in their districts for con* sideration of the subject, and the appointment of representatives. By this means the people would have selected their own representative men, and peradventnre good might have arisen from this method. At any rate, I dare say from the various discussions the association would have learned something, which might have been found to be beneficial to their future workings. The adoption of such a plan now is too late to be of any practical benefit, aud this caused by the action of this election of representative mea committee. Verv many of the farming community feel somewhat curious to learn who are the twenty representative men replying and valuably suggesting. Aβ for the moment, the country people must object to their nomination as the farmers representatives, and, until placed before them, they cannot aucsoribe to the valuable suggestions. I notice that the President and Mr. James Pjlworth take the places of Mr. W, F. Bnokland and the Secretary, so perhaps they would be able to adopt some feasible plaa of gaining the co-operative support of the "pantry distriot people. We hope that such a desirable event will come to pass, and so place the society in a position of practical usefulness, and the earlier the date the better.—l am, &c, H. S. Andekwb.